CI Operator Visualizer Tool

[michaelgugino]

CI Operator Visualizer Tool

[michaelgugino]

Some discussion points from recent arch call:

1q) Operators should do more to detect conditions and present the information
1a.1) Operators do present some of that information today, but how accessible is it to the end user? For engineers looking at a CI run, that information is embedded in a large json file, and nobody really looks at it.
1a.2) For the machine-api specifically, our operator status is not tied to the status of individual machines as they are user tuneable. Often times, there's no reason to look at machine objects as they are not a primary indication (eg, etcd is down to 2/3 replicas would be the alarm) and it takes some effort to work through the layers of the stack and see a machine is having a problem and might be the root cause (or might point you to a different root cause).

2q) This information should integrate with insights/mustgather/run it in the cluster
2a) I don't disagree, that would be nice follow-on work. We can prove it in the CI as it will be most useful there immediately (we're diagnosing failed clusters)

3q) Operators should be able to self correct known conditions
3a) If etcd wants to deploy 3 replicas but can't because we don't have enough control plane hosts, it's powerless to do anything to correct that. If the machine-api can't create a new control plane host because the machineset is misconfigured or the AZ went dark, there's nothing we can do to correct that.

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